Applied Statistics for Engineers and Scientists

About Jay DevoreJimmy DoiNicholas Farnum

Jay Devore is Professor Emeritus of Statistics at California Polytechnic State University. He earned his undergraduate degree in Engineering Science from the University of California at Berkeley spent a year at the University of Sheffield in England and finished his Ph.D. in statistics at Stanford University. Jay previously taught at the University of Florida and at Oberlin College and has had visiting appointments at Stanford Harvard the University of Washington New York University and Columbia University. From 1998 to 2006 he served as Chair of the Cal Poly Statistics Department. In addition to this book Jay has written several other widely used statistics texts for engineers and scientists and a book in applied mathematical statistics. He recently coauthored a text in probability and stochastic processes. He is the recipient of a distinguished teaching award from Cal Poly is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and has served several terms as an Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Statistical Association. In his spare time he enjoys reading cooking and eating good food tennis and travel to faraway places. He is especially proud of his wife Carol a retired elementary school teacher his daughter Allison who has held several high-level positions in nonprofit organizations in Boston and New York City and his daughter Teresa a high school teacher in Brooklyn. Nicholas Farnum received his B.S. and Ph.D. in Mathematics from University of California at Irvine. He is currently a professor in the Information Systems and Decision Sciences Department at California State University Fullerton. Professor Farnum has published several papers in applied and theoretical statistics and has also written texts in Quality Control and Forecasting. He is a member of the American Statistical Association and the Mathematical Association of America. In his spare time Professor Farnum enjoys cooking playing music and traveling. Jimmy Doi earned his B.A. in Mathematics (minors in Biology Chemistry Japanese) from California State University Northridge. He earned his masters and Ph.D. in Statistics at North Carolina State University. Since receiving his doctorate Professor Doi has been on the faculty in the Statistics Department at California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo. His research interests include biostatistics and categorical data analysis. He enjoys traveling kayak fishing long board surfing and playing basketball with his current and former students. But his favorite moments are when he spends time with his wife Midori and daughter Alicia.